A genetic study published on Tuesday offers an important new clue. Researchers found that, between 250,000 and 500,000 years ...

A specific gene variant seen in people is likely one of many that contributed to the development of language in modern humans ...

FOXP2 is widely expressed in both mouse and human tissues, and although its brain expression has not been examined in detail, the available evidence offers no clue as to the basis of its ...

In a lab at Rockefeller University in New York, a mouse squeaks. But this is no ordinary squeak. It is a strange, complex ...

New research suggests a genetic variant in the NOVA1 protein may have played a key role in the emergence of human speech.

It enabled information sharing, coordinated activities, and knowledge transfer, setting us apart from extinct hominids like ...

A new study shows that giving mice the human version of a gene changes their squeak, suggesting some of the genetic ...

FOXP2, could reveal about language's neural basis. 1 After the gene was made known through studies of the so-called KE family, half of whom had the defect and could barely speak, analyses showed that ...